B.G. Sloan wrote:
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> I once managed a project where an outside vendor did data entry for the conversion of the University of Illinois library shelflist. My job was quality control, and part of that was making sure the vendor got the transliterations right. It was obvious that a lot of their data entry folks didn't quite understand the process of transliteration.
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Transliteration of (not only)cyrillic has always been different in
German libraries. In this case, there are records that came from
different sources that didn't use the same standards to begin with.
And since there's no indicator saying "this field's content was
transliterated according to ...", there is no chance to fix that by
software. The title page itself might indeed contain transliterated text
which was then transcribed!
B.Eversberg
Received on Wed Mar 24 2010 - 11:55:35 EDT